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The very first phone was invented by Alexander Graham Bell. He made the first call to his assistant Thomas Watson and said "Mr. Watson, come here, I want to see."
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The first transcontinental call was made from Alexander Graham Bell to Thomas Watson. It was from New York to San Francisco.
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AT&T made the multiplexing concept which meant it would allow several calls at one time to be made.
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W.S. Gilford, the president of American telephone,called Sir Evelyn P. Murray who was in Great Britain.
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The first fliphone was released. It was priced at $3,000 which mostly only the the wealthy could afford.
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The first touchscreen phone was made by IBM Simon in 1992. It wasn't able to do many things but you could use your hands to look on your phone.
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Steve Jobs the founder of Apple announced on June 29, 2007 that the iPhone was released.
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On June 11, 2008 Apple released the iPhone 3GS. This phone was twice as fast as the regular iPhone.
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Samsung released there very first phone the i7500 which sparked the start of there tablet and phone and company.
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Apple came out with the iPhone 6 and 6s. These phones allowed you to do a lot more. The camera quality was a lot better.
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Apple released the new iPhone 7 and 7 plus. Now the iPhone had no headphone jack so you would have to have an adapter to your charger.
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Apple released the new iPhone X. The new phone has crazy good picture quality and now it has no home button.
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Some futurologists predict that we will have holograms. It is a touch-free phone!
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Futurologists predict that we will have bendable phones!! So your phone would be able to bend while your on it.
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Futurologists predict that you can charge your phone by spinning in on your finger. Some say that there will be broken phones and cant quite figure out how it would charge your phone.
